Primary pulmonary coccidioidomycosis

Primary pulmonary coccidioidomycosis is an infection caused by inhalation of Coccidioides immitis.^[1]: 314 Once pulmonary symptoms subside, about 30% of women and 15% of men will have allergic skin manifestations in the form of erythema nodosum.^[1]: 314 A coccidioidoma is a benign localized residual granulomatous lesion or scar that can remain in the lung's tissues following primary pulmonary coccidioidomycosis.^[2]

Primary pulmonary coccidioidomycosis
Coccidioidomycosis in lung, endospores in spherule.
Specialty	Infectious diseases

See also

• Coccidioidomycosis
• List of cutaneous conditions